How Do We Negotiate With People Who Believe Things Differently?

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We've got two political parties that seem prtty much indivisible on our side of the water, until we can get red people and blue people to talk together. Ere's a brilliant strategy of divide and rule happening. How do we negotiatethe people who believe things differently to us get to the point where the impending climate catastrophe is even on the ratar? Yes. And my general answer, and a specific to this, is there's a certain number type of person whom you cannot really negotiate with because they're not operating in the same reality. We have to find out what their real interests are. The only way you get somebody on board is with a shared interest a.

How can we use the leading edge of design thinking to create climate activism that really works? Dave Johnson is a lawyer, teacher, writer and design thinker who is bringing his breadth of understanding to bear on the climate and ecological emergency.

Dave Johnson began his career as a trial lawyer in the courtrooms of Miami. After a decade, he came to Stanford to study design, tech and environmental law. He has worked for several Silicon Valley companies, with an increasing focus on teaching, first at Stanford Law School and then the Hasso Plattner Institute for Design at Stanford (a/k/a the d.school). His most recent articles are Design for Legal Systems, to be published by the Singapore Academy of Law, Mar/Apr 2021, and Designing Online Mediation: Does “Just Add Tech” Undermine Mediation’s Ownmost Aim?, published in 2019 by FGV Direito, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dave is currently working on a book entitled: Climate Activism by Design, bringing design principles to bear on citizen activists responding to corporate and governmental inaction on this immediate, existential crisis facing all of humanity.

In this episode, we discuss the foundations of his book - how a trial lawyer shifted to design principles and thence to the design concepts behind climate activism: what it is and how to frame it such that we can find the best possible modes of action as the emergency becomes ever greater.

Dave's website and blog
https://climate-activist.com/designing-a-greenprint-elements-for-a-personal-eco-philosophy/
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